NASA’s Curiosity rover has taken an unbelievable selfie picture during an “unprecedented” massive dust storm on Mars.

The picture, a composite created by scientist Seán Doran, who works with NASA’S Jet Propulsion Lab to create and course of its pictures, exhibits the $2.5 billion analysis car stylin’ and profilin’ within the wake of the epic dust storm occurring on the Red Planet.

“It’s blended out of the shot,” Doran advised the Daily Mail when requested how he created the picture. “The arm moves around as it takes about 100 images to make a full 360 (degree image).”

The Curiosity rover is at the moment on the Gale Crater on Mars, a 96-mile-wide valley that researchers as soon as believed housed a large lake.

The dust storm has wreaked havoc on Mars, with NASA holding a press convention final week to offer an replace on how it’s affecting its operations on Mars. Luckily, the Curiosity rover is ready to perform, because it depends on plutonium and never daylight as a gasoline supply. However, the Opportunity rover, which has been on Mars for practically 15 years, has not been so fortunate, successfully going into sleep mode during the storm.

“The storm is one of the most intense ever observed on the Red Planet,” NASA mentioned in a statement final week. “As of June 10, it covered more than 15.8 million square miles (41 million square kilometers) – about the area of North America and Russia combined. It has blocked out so much sunlight, it has effectively turned day into night for Opportunity, which is located near the center of the storm, inside Mars’ Perseverance Valley.”

Aside from its photogenic prowess, the Curiosity rover made international headlines earlier this month when NASA introduced that it had discovered natural molecules on Mars, offering contemporary perception into the Red Planet.

“We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lake bed,” defined Jen Eigenbrode, analysis scientist at Goddard. A wide range of molecules have been recognized, she added.

The rocks are billions of years outdated, in response to NASA.

While NASA was at pains to elucidate that it has not found life on Mars, the natural molecules may present important clues.

“Organic compounds are fundamental to our search for life,” mentioned Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard.

Described as probably the most technologically superior rover ever constructed, Curiosity launched on Nov. 26, 2011. The rover landed on Mars’ Gale Crate on Aug. 6, 2012, with the purpose of figuring out whether or not Mars was ever in a position to help microbial life.

The rover has already delivered different vital scientific outcomes. In 2013, analysis of a rock pattern collected by the car confirmed that historic Mars may have supported dwelling microbes. In 2014, the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an natural chemical, within the environment round it. At that point, the robotic laboratory additionally detected different natural molecules in a rock-powder pattern collected by its drill.

In December 2017, NASA announced that it was constructing a brand new rover to search for life on Mars, dubbed Mars 2020.